Rocha: Build MCP servers around core use cases, not full API spec
Zeno Rocha · Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents · Mar 21, 2025 · at 34:57
Zeno Rocha is the founder and CEO of Resend. He shares design advice for software engineers creating Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations for AI agents.
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“Don't start through, like via the API, like just grabbing your open API spec and generating an MCP server. No, start from the use case. What are people actually doing with your product? And then you build, like, you don't need full coverage of your API, just the most important things.”
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